iu5slc - Lit Circle Book Selection

2011-2012
This year we will be utilizing our Professional Learning Community for recommendations and reviews of professional reading material. Please visit our new SLC PLC blog to post information about books or find reading material of interest.

Literature Circle Book Selection 2010-2011

Differentiated Instruction.docx

Tiered Lesson Plan.doc

Tiered lesson plan Poetry.doc

April 6 Meeting Assignment

Part 1 - Read Chapters 5-end of Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey and be ready for a Literature Circle Discussion on one of the chapters.

Part 2 - Share one strategy from
Standards-based Activities And Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom by Carolyn Coil
with another teacher in another content area in your building. Prepare a one page handout that explains how the teacher used it in class on the front side and on the other side print a student sample with the student name removed. We will share these so everyone have 39 additional models to take home and share with faculty from their school. Several have asked if they can take photos to include on the handout. Yes, that woudl be terrif.ic to document what is happening in your schools as you share these strategies

If you have your model for the first part and were not able to bring it to the December 15 meeting we woudl be so pleasee to share your great work at the April 6 meeting.

Come for great Professional Development and the #1 PLC in the state!

DECEMBER 15 Meeting Assignment

Part 1 - Read Chapters 1-4 of Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey and be ready for a Literature Circle Discussion on one of the chapters.

Part 2 - Use the strategy from
Standards-based Activities And Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom by Carolyn Coil
that your table was assigned at the last SLC from the first section of this book in your class. Prepare a handout that explains how you used it in class on the front side and on the other side print a student sample with the student name removed. We will share these so everyone have 39 additional models to take home and share with faculty from their school.

Come for great Professional Development and the #1 PLC in the state!

See you soon:)

Literature Circle Book Selection2009-2010

Donalyn's newest article Educational Leadership
in http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar10/vol67/num06/Becoming_a_Classroom_of_Readers.aspx

Check out Donalyn Miller's blog at http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer

Read Readicide online!
Resources found inside Readicide:
Kelly Gallagher's website
Article-Of-the-Weekpg. 47
Time For Kids magazine
TIME Education Program
(Newsweek for classrooms is no longer available as Gallagher mentioned in his book.)

Literature Circle Book Selection2008-09: